offstage
Your computer-use agent gets a Mac account, not your screen
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Details
- External ID
- 1272187
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- offstage
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 78
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.98
- Tags
- Mac, Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
Description
offstage gives Claude Code, Codex and opencode a second, logged-in macOS account to work in. Simulators, Xcode UI tests and the app your agent just built open on that account's desktop, so your screen, keyboard and mouse stay yours. Free and open source: https://github.com/viraatdas/offstage
Enrichment
- Niche
- developer tools for coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- isolated mac user environment for computer-use agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a CLI runner is easy, but securely managing isolated macOS user sessions, switching display servers/WindowServer contexts, and handling sandboxed background GUIs requires deep macOS systems internals.
What it would actually take: Requires Swift/Objective-C interacting with low-level macOS APIs (CoreGraphics, WindowServer, loginwindow session management) to programmatically spawn and interact with detached virtual displays or separate user desktop sessions without hijacking the active console. The challenge is navigating macOS TCC privacy controls, accessibility permissions, and undocumented CoreGraphics session hooks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 331 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #20 of 332 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 276 days after the earliest competitor.
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